Emotional State Persistence

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• emotion feature persistenceconcept0.849
  The phenomenon that emotion feature activations remain elevated above baseline beyond local token bursts, measurable as long-range correlation
• KV State Persistenceconcept0.794
  The key-value cache from steered tokens is retained during no-steering continuation, allowing causal effect of steering to propagate
• To what extent is there persistence of emotional state beyond what is expected merely from the autoregressive nature of LLMs?question0.793
  The central research question motivating the paper
• Affective Statesconcept0.780
  Psychological states like emotions, moods, pains, itches, defined by valence and arousal.
• Anti-Persistence of Emotion Featuresconcept0.775
  The phenomenon where activating an emotion feature leads to subsequent below-baseline activation of that feature
• internal emotional stateconcept0.770
  The possibility of a stably encoded, causally active emotional state within LLMs, as distinct from token-by-token semantic content
• Whether observed persistence reflects a genuine lingering emotion-like state or merely persistent conversational context that produced the emotion-relevant activationquestion0.769
  Core unresolved confound the paper acknowledges but cannot rule out
• Emotion may refer to a state, and more stateful concepts in general tend to be more persistent across tokens than non-stateful onesclaim0.767
  Proposed mechanistic explanation for why emotion features are more persistent